In this article I will attempt to answer the 4 most asked questions I get about what we do in our offense.
Question 1: On twitter you have talked a lot lately about 12p quickly becoming your favorite personnel package why is that?
12p cleans up the box for your Quarterback and allows RPO's to become 1 on 1 games between wide receivers and cornerbacks. Those are the match-ups we are looking for.
We used two 12p RPO's heavy last year. I want to talk about the one that was apart of my one-word calls!
With 7 lineman you force the defense to put 8 in the box if they intend to stop the run. 8 in the box means that our pre-snap slant or out becomes open and if not we can read our post snap glance. Of course because we want to run the ball we are hoping that the defense decides that 7 defenders is enough in the box.
Understand the picture for RPO's.......
Is the APEX defender attached? ✔️
Great result! Wrong Read by the QB...
Never turn down Pre-Snap reads, they are free get out of jail cards.... 🗃️
S/N love 12p
Watching a Nike COY clinic video on Dana Holgerson and he said the following.
If you are fast all the time defense loves it.
If you are slow all the time defense loves it.
If you vary it, then defense not so happy......
When I was a young play caller, I had the attitude of tempo meant everything! I wanted to go fast! I wanted to run as man plays as I could, I thought it didn't really mater what I called on 1st and 2nd down, the only down where slowing it down could matter was 3rd down. As I have progressed I can tell you that is not the same philosophy I have today! Varying tempo and knowing when to use it is important as ever.
A few years ago, I heard Neal Brown at a clinic talk about his Blur package a collection of plays that he would run to use tempo anywhere on the field. Basically, the were base plays packaged and ready to go on a moments notice.
Here is a sample of the Blur package we used in the past as HC.
Blur 1
Blur 2
Blur 3
Blur 4
One thing I wanted to do was combine Tempo with the ability to run downhill. Coach Steve Addazio said it best.
So what did we evolve to you ask?
This is a question I have answered in my new CoachTube class, named Tempo Plays and One Word Calls in Your Offense.
The ability to use one word plays to control tempo. We have about 7 or 8. We call them when most convenient for us. If you have followed this blog, you know I am a huge fan of zone-stick. In this class I show how it became a one word play for us, where we would rotate the formation to best fit us weekly.
To find out more about our one word plays and how we use them to control the tempo in our power spread offense click here.
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